US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 22 for "Magnetic refrigeration device and refrigeration cycle device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,388, issued on July 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic refrigeration device and refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Shun Tonooka (Tokyo), Atsushi Ogasahara (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic refrigeration device includes a magnetocaloric material, first piping, second piping, a magnetic field generating unit, and a switching unit. The first piping supplies a refrigerant to the magnetocaloric material in a first refrigerant direction. The second piping supplies the refrigerant to the magnetocaloric material in a second refrigerant direction. The magnetic f...